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Originally Posted by troynuncdicit

This is quite possibly the biggest bull**** I've EVER come across in all my years at this godforsaken forum (trust me, I've come across loads) so I'll be as succinct as possible.

It was all clearly calculated. Jim and Linda obviously know their history with each other and Jim knew that talking about the dressing room would hit a nerve. He set Luisa up, TOLD HER to ask Linda about Frank Carson's dressing room, and waited for the fireworks to explode. You're incredibly naive or biased or both if you think otherwise. Even more so if you think Linda STAGED a "massive overreaction" to her enemy humiliating her dead husband on national television.

I'm not even going to address the part where you say that this was out of consideration for Linda's feelings and respect for the dead because perhaps it could've been more considerate or respectful to, I don't know, maybe NOT EVEN BRING IT UP.

Pretty much what it comes down to is everyone expecting Linda to react a certain way. She shouldn't have bit back, she shouldn't have confronted Jim, she should've just let it go. Quite frankly, it's a situation that none of us can even relate to so it's not fair for anyone to say how Linda should've reacted. Besides, I personally find it more honorable and admirable that she let Jim know what a twat he was and told him to **** off.

It'll be interesting to see what the forums would say if Linda brought up something from Jim's past. I'm sure everyone would jump down her throat per usual, saying how dare she bring that up, would admire Jim for reacting however he chose to do so. It's the Aaron/Speidi complex where he's placed on a pedestal and simultaneously can do no wrong and everything done to him is wrong and he's the victim and the martyr.

I have one very simple response to your post: if Linda wanted consideration for her feelings she wouldn't have been bitching about Jim and pushing him to this point for the last two and a half weeks. She wouldn't want it brought up at all. If she didn't want the shame, humiliation, embarrassment or upset of her past brought up then she shouldn't have been goading Jim or holding a grudge against him for the last twenty years. Maybe she never made peace with what her husband was caught doing. Jim is an arsehole, a misogynist, a chauvinist, a wife beater and a recovering alcoholic but that does not for one minute excuse Linda Nolan's one woman hate campaign against him, that doesn't excuse her from picking on him at every possible minute nor does it excuse her from refusing to make peace with her past in favour of moaning about Jim and trying to fight with him all the time.